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3.00 Credits
Analyzes the theories and practices of probation and parole, responses of paroling authorities to public pressures and court controls, and their implications for rehabilitation. Efforts to bridge institutional settings and community life, as well as the feasibility and effectiveness of treating individuals under sentence in the community, are reviewed. Cross-listed with CRJU 5530.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the policies and practices of agencies in processing youthful offenders through the juvenile court system, reviews trends in juvenile justice policy making, and assesses changes in response to juvenile crime by both the juvenile justice and criminal justice systems. Cross-listed with CRJU 5540.
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3.00 Credits
Provides a survey of conceptual and design strategies in criminal justice policy analysis. The logic and rationale of these various strategies are contrasted, and their relative merits are critiqued. Selected policy issues in the criminal justice system are utilized to illustrate the application and interpretation of alternative strategies. Cross-listed with CRJU 5550.
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes judicial organization, court administration, and criminal court judicial decision making practices within the context of the broader operation of the criminal justice system. Special attention is paid to the social organization of the courtroom, examining the special roles of judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys. Cross-listed with CRJU 5551.
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3.00 Credits
Offers a normative framework within which to explore ways to increase sensitivity to the demands of ethical behavior among criminal justice personnel. The application of a normative perspective enhances the possibility that moral problems are better understood, more carefully analyzed, and rendered more tractable. Applied ethics forces a reflection not just on ethics, but also on the nature and operation of the criminal justice system itself. Cross-listed with CRJU 5552.
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3.00 Credits
Explores issues surrounding women as offenders, victims, and criminal justice professionals. Investigates explanations for the involvement of women in illegal activities. Analyzes the plight of battered women, rape victims, and other female victims. Examines the participation of women in law enforcement, judicial processes, corrections and lawmaking. Cross-listed with CRJU 5553.
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3.00 Credits
Provides an overview of reform efforts in the criminal justice system. Selected theoretical approaches and policies are examined and assessed in light of their assumptions and programmatic applications. The rational and process underlying selected reform strategies are explored. The implications of the effects of reform in criminal justice policy making and decision making are analyzed. Cross-listed with CRJU 5554.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the relationship of neighborhood social disorganization to the dynamics of crime from a social ecology perspective. The course examines the underlying social causes of phenomena such as criminal victimization, violent and property crime, neighborhood fear, neighborhood deterioration and recidivism. The course examines social, structural, and ecological characteristics of neighborhoods and communities in affecting crime. Cross-listed with CRJU 5571.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the role of race in criminal justice processing. This course examines the research findings, interpretations, issues, and implications in assessing the impact of race in the administration of criminal justice. Explores the policy implications concerning the nature and extent of racial disparities in the criminal justice system and lays out a research agenda to more strategically address these issues within criminal justice policy making. Cross-listed with CRJU 5572.
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3.00 Credits
Employs both the social science and legal approaches to examine crime committed by corporations as well as by individuals in white collar occupations. The course covers how such crimes are socially defined, who commits them, who is victimized by them, which social contexts promote them, and how society and the criminal justice system respond to them. Cross-listed with CRJU 5574.
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